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Honey. You’ve met honey. It’s that sticky,
sweet stuff. Basically just slightly liquidy sugar in a
plastic bear bottle, right? Wrong! Honey is a supercharged bacteria-killing
powerhouse. And it’s all down to what those hardworking bees put into it, from immune
proteins to the sugar itself. Since ancient times, honey has been used to
prevent wounds from getting infected. And these days, we use purified and standardized
versions of honey to fight infections in hospitals. Honey has three main tricks for fighting bacteria. The first is all that sugar. Honey is only about 17% water. Most–but not
all–of what remains is sugar. The two main types of sugar in honey are glucose
and fructose. Like all sugars, glucose and fructose are sticky — they attract water. Honey is technically a supersaturated solution,
meaning it contains more sugar than would normally dissolve at that temperature. That’s
why it eventually gets all crystally in the pantry — over time, the sugar comes out of
the solution. Chemically speaking, it’s desperate for
water. Water can travel across cell membranes from
where there’s a higher concentration of water to where there’s a lower concentration.
And there’s a higher concentration of water in a bacterium than in honey. Which means that honey will suck the juices
right out of any bacterium — or mold, or fungus — that tries to set up shop. Plus, there’s isn’t enough water in honey
for any microorganisms to live on. So they die, and the honey doesn’t spoil. The second thing, is that when bees make honey,
they throw in an enzyme called glucose oxidase. And bacteria hate glucose oxidase because
it produces two different compounds. It converts glucose to gluconic acid and hydrogen
peroxide. Gluconic acid is, you guessed it, an acid.
It gives honey a pH value of less than 4. That’s about a thousand times more acidic
than the neutral pH of 7 that most bacteria need to grow. And hydrogen peroxide is very good at killing
cells. It destroys the cell walls of bacteria, which breaks them apart. Glucose oxidase isn’t active in ripe honey–there’s
not enough water for it to work properly. It seems to be there to keep the honey from
spoiling while the bees are drying it out. But if you dilute honey, the glucose oxidase
will switch back on and make gluconic acid again. The final thing bees do to make honey antibacterial?
They put antibiotics in it. Some types of honey contain a protein called
bee defensin-1, which is exactly what it sounds like. Bee defensin-1 defends bees. It’s part of
their immune system and protects them from certain bacteria, including ones that could
cause nasty diseases inside the hive. It’s produced in a gland that bees use to
make honey, so it makes sense that some of it would make it into the finished product.
And while scientists aren’t sure how much of the protein is really in honey, it sort
of makes sense that bees would use it to protect their food. Another antibacterial compound sometimes found
in honey is methylglyoxal. Methylglyoxal is a small organic molecule
that forms in honey from a compound in the nectar of certain flowers. There’s an especially large amount of methylglyoxal
in manuka honey, a honey made from a New Zealand flower. This honey is so good at killing bacteria
that it’s actually used in hospitals. There’s one bacterium that has honey’s
number–but only sort of. It’s the type of bacteria that that causes
botulism. The bacteria start out as spores, which are
very hard to kill. They’re already dried out, so honey’s
water-sucking properties don’t kill them, and because the spores aren’t growing, they
aren’t affected by the acidity or the antibiotic compounds. The really dangerous part of the bacteria
is the botulinum toxin they produce when they grow into mature bacteria. Less than a hundred
nanograms — that’s billionths of a gram — is enough to kill an adult. About 10% of honeys have some botulinum spores
in them. But since the spores in honey aren’t growing and making toxin, they’re harmless
to healthy adults. Our immune systems intercept the spores before they can start growing inside
of us. But the immune systems of infants aren’t
always able to kill those spores before they start growing. So, in rare cases, the bacteria
can germinate and start producing toxin. That’s why it’s not safe to give honey
to infants under one year old, but the rest of us don’t need to worry about it. So the next time you’re looking for something
sweet, go ahead — eat some of bacteria’s worst enemy. Thanks for watching this episode of SciShow,
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Today we’re going to be cleaning mold off of seats which is pretty straightforward, but you need to make sure you wear the proper safety gear. Mold can be really nasty stuff and it
can kill you. Make sure you wear a mask that can keep mold from getting to your lungs, and it’s a good idea to wear safety goggles and gloves as well. The tools you use will depend on the condition of the seat and what kind of seat you have. For example in this truck the seats were in good condition and were of cloth material so I used a big nylon brush. Seats made out of leather or cloth and poor condition may require a softer more delicate brush. For cloth seats you’re going to want a carpet and upholstery cleaner but for leather seats you will of course use a leather cleaner you will also want one rag per seat to clean up anything that the brush leaves behind a small detail brush will also be
useful for getting into corners. …And now for the easy part: Actually cleaning the seats! The easiest way to tackle this job is by spraying one seat panel at a time. For example I’m spraying the base of one seat here. The ideal amount of spray to
use differs from product product so read the label on the bottle. Using the brush
will allow you to work all the dirt and mold out of the seat. Rags don’t work because they don’t agitate the surface enough. If by the time the foam goes away
and you still have mold and dirt in the seat, give it another spray and keep
using that brush keep doing this until the seat is completely clean. While the surface is still wet from the cleaning product, grab a towel and wipe the seat off. You’ll be surprised how dirty it gets! It’s a good idea to do this to every seat in the car just to be sure you got
all the mold out of it. It’s also a good time to change your cabin air filter if your car has one. It will help you filter out the last of the mold floating around inside the car. There you are! Your seat is back to normal! Remember mold can be airborne and invisible! If you feel unsure about how thorough you can get, leave it to a professional. Also, test out any products, tool, or technique you have never tried in an inconspicuous area first so that you avoid damaging something important. I hope this video made working on your car a little bit easier. Let me know how it went for you in the comments below, or check out one of our other videos! Thanks for watching!

Greetings! It’s Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand. Author of Candida Crusher and formulator of
the CanXida range of products. I’ve got a question here that was put to me
through my Facebook page. You can check out my Facebook page, Eric Bakker,
ND. I’ve got my own professional Facebook page. People often come in there and ask questions
or check out some of the posts I put in there. Freda is in Sweden and Freda is saying, “Can
my house be the cause of my Candida infection?” Freda, you live in Sweden like I live in New
Zealand. If you look at people that live in Canada,
Scotland, Sweden, these cool damp temperate areas, they can be quite prone to molds, different
mildews and molds. If you can actually see visible mold or mildew
on walls or see dark spots in different rooms, that’s a really big problem. It tells you that you’re going to have a ton
of freely circulating different spores floating in the air. Doctor Leo Galland, the mold expert from New
York, calls these tiny floating particles “bio-aerosols”. These contain fungi and different types of
yeasts and molds actually in them and they float around. Tiny little satellites that float in the air. You can’t even see them. If you’re a type of person who will feel better
in one house and worse in another or you go and live in an apartment, flat or a house
and all of a sudden you develop a sickness, or you move from an apartment into another
house and you get better, there’s a big chance that that environment may have been a problem. Often if it’s a damp place, first thing you
do is check out the molds. Check out the bathroom. Check out the bedrooms. Look at the ceilings. Look at the walls. If there’s any dampness at all and you’re
coughing and you’re sick, you need to get the heck out of there. I’m just going to read out some symptoms. Typical symptoms we find with exposure to
environment. These are the ones we’re looking at. Blocked nose, cold or flu-like symptoms, coughing,
difficulty breathing or shortness of breath or wheezing, hay fever symptoms, hair loss,
itchy nose, itchy eyes, itchy ear, irritated or itchy skin, itchy throat, nasal congestion,
blood shot or red eyes, runny nose, sore throat, sinus congestion, watery eyes, wheezing, sneezing. You can see there are a lot of ear, nose and
throat kind of symptoms. These are the areas you’re going to get the
primary initial exposure to these bio-aerosols. You’re going to breathe it in. In New Zealand, we’ve had a big problem in
the early 2000s with what we call “leaky buildings”. Many, many thousands of houses were built
very quickly to meet a demand. And a lot of these homes were not insulated
properly and the roof wasn’t constructed properly. There are a lot of builders with poor qualifications
making these houses. A lot of houses were leaky as a result, which
caused an incredible amount of health problems and asthma and lots of disease with people. Can my house be the cause? It definitely can. It can either bring a Candida problem right
to the foreground and exacerbate it or it can cause a problem through the mold exposure
and develop a really big immune dysfunction. In some cases, these can lead to autoimmune
disease and serious illness. Doctors don’t take mold exposure at all serious
in a person’s environment. They laugh it off sometimes. Just like Candida. They don’t even take it seriously. My answer to your question is “yes, your house
can be the cause of Candida or a mold problem.” The reason why, Candida, not necessarily floats
in the air. But if you’ve got Candida already growing
in your body naturally but it’s in balance like about one in four people have, it can
become an overgrowth or a problem due to mold exposure in the air, which can trigger big
immune responses and allow immunity to become compromised and allowing Candida to become
opportunistic and can become a big infection. There are different tests you can do for mold,
but in my opinion, you’re better off just really temporarily moving into another house
to see how you feel. If you feel a lot better in a different environment,
then you want to move out of that house permanently. Get out of there. If it’s a rented house, many landlords are
reluctant to fix these problems. If it’s your own home, spend the money, get
it done properly. Fix it up. That’s my answer. I hope that gives you a little bit of understanding
there, Freda. Thanks for your question. If you haven’t gotten my Candida report, please
click on the link and don’t forget to subscribe. Thank you.

I often get asked questions regarding Candida
yeast infections from many people all around the world in over 100 countries now. It’s
become very popular for me now to reply in this particular fashion because it would take
too long for me to respond to each individually in mail I get. I get hundreds of emails every
day. Typical questions. What are the causes of Candida is a question I get. How did I
get there in the first place? How did this start for me? How can I identify the cause,
so I can prevent it in the future? In my book in Chapter 2 of Candida Crusher,
I wrote the 11 primary causes of a Candida yeast infection. Let’s just get one thing
straight. There are two types of causes. There’s the primary cause, or what I call the exciting
cause, what really helped to initiate or begin Candida, and then there’s the maintaining
causes, what keeps it going. Remember, there are two types of causes. Most people haven’t
got a clue about these two types of causes. They just think there’s some kind of cause,
so there’s always something that maintains Candida or a combination of dietary and lifestyle
events that maintain the cause, and then there’s the initiating causes. Here’s just a little
a piece of information I’m going to read out to you. The different types of causes that
are most likely to occur with Candida. These are both maintaining causes and initiating
causes. Antibiotic drugs. The primary cause. I’d say
most of the people I see with severe Candida or recurring Candida took one or several rounds
of some kind of a penicillin, some kind of an antibiotic. There are different classes
of antibiotic drugs and many of them have a helping hand in beginning Candida. Many
women develop vaginal thrush after taking a course of antibiotics usually for some kind
of respiratory problem or skin problem. Maybe even for urinary tract infection, they would
have developed it. Many guys develop jock itch after taking antibiotics for a cough
or a cold or a cut or some skin infection or something like that. Many children develop
thrush as well, also from antibiotics. These are the primary. Antibiotics in meats. The commercial poultry
or chicken that you’re eating today probably contains an antibiotic. If you continually
eat these kind of foods plus have several of the other causes, you’re probably going
to help to maintain this yeast infection in your body. This is why I talk a lot about
organic or free-range chicken. The grass-fed beef. The particular kind of proteins that
are clean. This also gives a lot of vegans or vegetarians fuel for saying, See, meat’s
not a good food. You need to eat vegetarian sources of protein. Immune deficiency. Many people I see have
an immune deficiency. They may have a folic deficiency or an iron deficiency, for example,
leading to a deficient immune function. Many people have got digestive problems, which
have helped to create the immune deficiencies or exacerbate them, which drag the Candida
out even further. A poor immunity. Get your blood tested, for example, it’s a good idea
to do a complete blood count and look at the white cell markers. Check iron and B-12. Good
things to check out. Steroids and other drugs. Very common. Many
people take steroids, inhaled steroids, and those puffers for asthma. They may take a
prednisone, a prednisone for an autoimmune disease or pain or inflammation. They may
take a hydrocortisone cream for a skin problem. These are all steroids which help to suppress
the immune system and perpetuate Candida. Alcohol. One of the biggest causes with men
with jock itch or maintaining causes, particularly, is drinking alcohol on a regular basis. Drinking
beer, for example. I see this a lot with guys. Diets. Sugar-laden diets. Diets high in sweet
foods. We’ve spoken about this on numerous videos. Diets with plenty of white bread,
bagels, donuts, candy, chocolate, and ice cream. These things just feed Candida in the
gut. Stress. Check out my three-part series on
stress and Candida. There are many aspects of stress that have quite a debilitating effect
on the immune system and perpetuate Candida. Chemicals. There’s probably a lot of chemicals
in your diet right now. You could be using personal skin care products. You could be
using cleansing products or garden products or all sorts of chemicals around the home
that can affect you in different ways. I’m going to do a series of videos specifically
relating to chemicals and how they affect the three to four different aspects of your
health in general. Your endocrine function. When your hormone
system gets affected severely. Your nervous system gets affected quite severely by Your
immune system gets affected quite severely. They’ve even linked Parkinson’s disease now
with a chemical called Rotenone or Derestas[?] that you puff around your cabbages for the
white butterfly. Rotenone or Derestas[?] have been linked positively with Parkinson’s disease,
so be careful using chemicals. Even like glyphosate or Round-up. These chemicals can linger in
the body for years and create a lot of destruction. Diabetes. A prime cause of Candida and a prime
maintaining cause as well. People with diabetes tend to have blood sugar problems, elevated
blood sugar levels. They urinate out more glucose. Of course, it’s the glucose management
catastrophe. Diabetes. Of course, when glucose isn’t managed properly, Candida is sitting
there waiting to happen. Chlorine or chlorine bleach. Fluoride, bromide
or what we called haloids. These are chemicals that can have quite an interesting effect
on your thyroid gland preventing the production of the thyroid hormone, but affecting your
immune system in other ways as well. So swimming in pools of chlorine, eating foods with bromine
like certain types of breads. Fluoride toothpaste. These are small maintaining causes, but still
quite significant. And mold is the 11th one. So mold we have
many people here in New Zealand and no doubt up in Canada and other countries that live
in houses that are a bit leaky with rain. They get moldy. There’d be spores in the air.
So you need to live in a ventilated to dry clean living quarters if you have Candida
because you can really get mucked up by mold. These are the 11 causes of Candida. I hope
that answers the question on what are the causes of Candida. Thank you.

[Intro Music] When should a person do the Mycozil yeast cleanse? Before the parasite cleanse or after the bowel cleanse? Now I touched on this before. what I like to use for the fungal and yeast is the Mycozil, but I also like to use oregano oil in conjunction with that as well. And I’ll also use enzymes because enzymes can break down some of that some of that… some of that biofilm, and also good probiotic formula like the Floratrex. A lot of people do the Mycozil in conjunction with the harmful organism cleanse, but I am trying I’ve had so many requests for us to come up with just some sort of a yeast, fungus, mold cause so many people are having mold situations and more or less it’s probably been there for a long time, but I think more people are just doing testing now for mold and there and there there’s so many different variations now. So I will be working on that the Mycozil is the formula that we developed specifically for attacking and helping your body naturally eliminate yeast, mold, or fungus. So you can do that any time as a matter of fact, I, myself, do the harmful organism cleanse, you know, periodically throughout the year because I think that’s one of the things that I’m sure everybody has heard this with family members, or just through talking to individuals is that it’s very hard for doctors, the allopathic doctors, the medical doctors, and the clinics, and especially in Europe when they’re on social medicine systems over there to get a proper diagnosis because everybody is being diagnosed, or they’re not being diagnosed because they’re not testing for mold, and fungus, and yeast and they’re not testing for harmful organisms and parasites, and they’re not testing for liver functionality because there really is no medical good test for that. You can you can look at ALT. You can look at GGT levels on the blood, but… we’ve still seen people that have come back with normal liver enzyme tests that we know their livers are congested. As a matter of fact, we’ve done close to over a million liver cleanses, and we’ve monitored those over the last 20 years. And from our research we feel that about 90% of the people over 30, only have 15 to 40 percent liver function. Now when you look at the amount of chemicals and toxins that are coming into the body on a daily basis it’s easy to understand why our livers are not functioning correctly, and our livers are not able to detoxify correctly, and our livers just can’t handle the amount of stuff coming through. Our livers were originally designed, as well as, our intestinal system to be herbivorous, to break down plant foods, not meat because if we do not have canine teeth to rip and chew flesh. We do not have a pipe like digestive system like the carnivorous animal does. We do not secrete hydrochloric acid in our mouth. We do not have claws to catch and tear up meat animals. I mean, it’s very basic that we were never designed to eat meat. And our livers were never designed to process more than one or two meals per day. And those meals were live nut, seeds, vegetables, fruits things that we could pick from a tree, or pick from the ground or things in nature. When you take people that are eating five, six, meals a day, drinking alcohol, drinking artificial sweeteners, colas, this that. We are bombarding our systems with so many toxic chemicals that the liver becomes congested. It becomes fatty. We’re seeing fatty liver disease in kids that don’t even drink alcohol. So… the good news is, it’s very simple and the body wants to heal itself very rapidly. That’s why it’s always going back to cleansing, cleansing, cleansing, cleansing, cleansing, and recognizing and educating yourself on what are these chemicals, and what are these toxins that I need to look for and that I need to avoid and it’s baby steps. You know, you can start with most people are living the 20/80 rule or the 30/70 rule which means only 20% of the time they’re healthy, and doing healthy things and 80% of the time they’re doing bad and eating bad things, and not exercising, and being lethargic. And watching shows and not getting enough sleep and under a lot of stress. Okay, so what we need to do is just shift that paradigm from twenty, twenty eighty to eighty twenty. And you can do that slowly. It doesn’t happen, you know, you don’t have to make all these decisions at once. Just slowly start doing better, doing better. We have all of the information that anyone would ever need to live a healthy life. And that includes watching my healthy home videos as well. If you haven’t seen those on YouTube on how to clean up and have a healthy kitchen area, how to have a healthy bedroom, how to have a healthy bathroom, all of those videos that I did that goes through the different types of toxic kitchen utensils, and the different types of all this stuff. Then I would highly suggest that you go to YouTube and you watch all those healthy home videos because those are amazing you really need to create that environment where you’re going to be healthy inside your body, and outside your body. [OUTRO MUSIC]

Patients that were using medicinal marijuana, a few of them developed these very severe fungal infections. But the type of fungal infection that some of these patients had were particularly rare and particularly deadly. And then some of the patients had a history of using medicinal marijuana and maybe some recreational marijuana as well. That initiated the search for a connection. Joe Tuscano had called me a couple years ago about some patients that we had suspected may have actually acquired their infection from medical marijuana use when they were trying to decrease their symptoms from chemotherapy or nausea or to assist with weight gain. So we just started the study to really look for all these different pathogens to see if our patients infections were self-inflicted. What we did is we found some samples obtained from dispensaries and we analyze those for all the bacteria and fungal organisms present in those samples, and found this huge number of fungal pathogens and gram-negative bacterial pathogens, all of which caused severe and very frequently lethal infections in this population. Amost all of the fungal pathogens that our patients acquire are environmental organism. Cut flowers are full of different fungal organisms and we found those exact same organisms are on medical marijuana that our patients are using for symptomatic allievement. The group really needs to avoid this is a highly immunocompromised patient, those with lymphoma leukemia on high-dose chemotherapy. These same pathogens are implicated in asthma for a number of people so we do wonder if that ‘s a group that also should possibly avoid inhaled cannabis use as well. We’re really hoping this is a cautionary tale to our patients and that with further knowledge and education we can avoid these infections in that group.

Hey guys, Dr. Josh Axe here with Ancient Medicine
Today. So excited you’re here with me. Today we’re going to be talking about black
mold symptoms and natural remedies to help cleanse your body of mold. And I’ll tell you what, mold toxicity is a
major issue for a lot of people, especially those that live in humid environments or have
moved into older homes. And you may not realize, there is a black
mold or mold in your air ducts, they can be in your basement, they can be growing almost
anywhere within your home. And so I’m going to talk about how to really
detox your body, and what are some of the biggest symptoms that you might be struggling
with a mold related problem. Also, hey, help me spread this message. There are so many people, hundreds of thousands
of people that have mold related symptoms that are causing major health issues in their
body. So take a minute right now, punch that share
button, click that like button, help me spread the word on how to use natural remedies, essential
oils, herbs, and foods as medicine. Let’s dive right in and talk about where does
black mold hide? Well, number one, in high-cellulose content
surfaces. So these are certain things within a home,
tend to be even sometimes dry wall, in between dry wall sheets or high-cellulose content
surfaces is where black mold can hide. And then air ducts is another big one. And then high moisture spots, where there’s
a lot of moisture. This is why people that live in Florida or
in the South or even anywhere in the North, but they tend to have more of these issues
with mold growing within the home. But again, if there’s a lot of moisture in
the home they can also hide as we talked about in the HVAC or air conditioning systems. High moisture spots is an area you can look
for black mold. And then also inside you. That’s right, inside your body is a place
where black mold or mold can hide and start to live and can cause major symptoms there
as well. In fact, I had a mentor who worked with, a
doctor now, who actually came down with mold poisoning and it gave him the symptoms of
chronic fatigue syndrome, was tired all the time, and he thought, “Hey, maybe I’ve just
been working too hard.” But it went on year, after year, after year,
and he realized mold was one of his issues along with heavy metal toxicity from when
he had his amalgam fillings removed. It was a combo with what he struggled with. But here’s some of the symptoms that you might
have, and if these symptoms are reoccurring month after month after month, it could be
as the result of having mold in your body or being exposed to mold on a regular basis. Number one is headaches. If you have a headache that you can’t seem
to pinpoint it, you know it’s not stress, maybe isn’t necessarily a migraine, but you
just get headaches really frequently, sort of a headache that’s just a dull pain around
your entire head, that could be due to mold symptoms. Chronic fatigue syndrome. If you are chronically tired every day, that
could be due to mold toxicity. Another big one is brain fog. I would if you have brain fog and fuzzy thinking
and poor memory on a regular basis, all the time, that can actually be a mold related
symptom. Also fever, if you tend to just get sick,
infections, and tired, and your temperature is raised on a regular basis, that can be
mold symptoms, eye irritation is a big one, sneezing, rashes, issues with mucus membranes,
your sort of always have mucus or irritated throat lining, chronic coughing on a regular
basis, and depression. And I mentioned another big one is brain fog,
if you have any of those symptoms that can be related to mold toxicity. And by the way, if you’ve ever known anybody
or you, yourself, are struggling with mold issues, let me know that right now here on
Facebook Live and YouTube Live, I would love to hear from you because there are hundreds
of thousands of people struggling with mold toxicity on a daily basis and they don’t know
it. So we’re going to jump into how to do a mold
cleanse on your body and the top natural remedies to do so. But we are live right now, help me spread
this message, take a minute right now, punch that share button, click that like button. Let’s teach the world how to use these natural
remedies to heal their body. Because here’s what happens, a lot of times
of when people have mold toxicity, they go into their medical doctor, and their doctor
will say, after a time they’ll say, “Okay, well, maybe your issue is . . . hey, here
is a medication for this. Here’s a medication to treat this other symptom. Hey, here’s a medication for headaches. Here’s a medication for fatigue.” And then they’ll say, “It’s all in your
head.” By the way, if you’ve ever had a doctor say
that to you or say that to someone you love, let me know that because that happens all
the time. Doctors say, “It’s all in your head.” It’s not in your head. There’s a reason why you’re experiencing some
chronic health issues. One of the number one cleansers for cleansing
mold from your body is bentonite clay. Now, bentonite clay, I believe, is typically
found in Montana, and there are other forms of clay that are fantastic. There are clays in France that are also very
effective and around the world. But clay in general, you can tell if you’ve
ever used it, it’s very sticky, imagine that going through your body, it will bind and
then stick to toxins such as mold in your body, helping detoxify your system. So actually doing a cleanse when you’re
drink a lot of water, doing bentonite clay, and then even doing extra fiber, let’s say
acacia fiber or a certain type of psyllium seed on a regular basis, that can actually
help really cleanse your body. Now bentonite clay, you wouldn’t want to do
that for over a month in terms of a cleanse because it will really start to, can start
to back you up and give you constipation if you do it too long. But overall bentonite clay is a great natural
cleanser of the body especially when it comes to mold. Another one is raw garlic. So we have a combination here where bentonite
clay can bind to things, raw garlic will actually kill off bad yeast and candida and bad types
of funguses and molds that get within your body there as well. Raw garlic contains a compound called allicin,
which actually is a potent, natural antibacterial, antifungal, so it can help kill funguses in
the body and then similarly in the mold family there as well. Activated charcoal will actually work very
similar to bentonite clay to where it binds the toxins. When somebody comes down with alcohol poisoning,
this is what the hospitals would give them. And historically they give them charcoal because
charcoal will bind to alcohol, bind to all toxins, and help get those out of the body
as well. But similar to bentonite clay, even more so,
charcoal you’d only want to do for short periods of time because they actually bind to minerals
in your body over time and can cause constipation long-term. So charcoal here and there, once a week, or
for a month-long cleanse you can do, but you wouldn’t want to do it long-term, every day. Oregano. Oil of oregano is one of my favorite natural
anti-fungal. Oregano is anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, anti-viral,
anti-parasitic. It is one of the most powerful, natural bug
killers out there today. So doing oil of oregano, you could do this
as part of a one week to a one month total cleanse. Again, this is actually a very strong herb
or an oil, so you wouldn’t want to do it over too a long period of time because it can actually
start to irritate your mucous membranes and your stomach over time if you’re doing the
oil. If you’re just doing the leaf on a daily basis,
let’s say a teaspoon a day or a teaspoon three times a day, you’d be fine. But as an oil, doing it in small amounts is
very, very powerful at actually killing off funguses within your body. Green juices. So now if you’re going to do a cleanse, what
I recommend is doing a cleanse where you do bone broth, veggie juice, and herbal teas. You might do an oregano tea, you might do
a Pau d’Arco tea as well. But green juice, this isn’t carrot juice
or beet juice or fruit juice. This is green juices, it’s cucumber and celery,
and then lots of greens, it’s kale, it’s spinach. Doing herbs like ginger and turmeric, lemons
and limes, even wheat grass juice, but doing really green, a very potent green juice with
no sugar at all, very powerful at cleansing and alkalizing your body, really creating
an environment that mold can’t thrive in. So think about this when it comes to mold,
typically it likes to grow in a warm, damp environment. Let’s say, and again Florida’s a prime example,
a basement where an area in the dark, in Florida, very moist, very warm, that’s where it likes
to grow. There’s also certain pHs it likes to grow
in. It likes to grow on certain things, we mentioned
cellulose earlier, certain types of surfaces, same thing, in your body mold or funguses
or yeast and candida for that matter like to grow in a damp environment. That’s why in Chinese medicine they recommend
doing things that dry up dampness, is the key to getting rid of mold and candida in
the body. So again, green juices can be beneficial. Sugar is one of the dampest causing foods
out there, and will feed fungus, mold and candida. So getting all of the excess sugar out of
the body. The good news about cinnamon is, cinnamon
is known as a warming herb Chinese medicine. So actually it can help the body in certain
regards, there as well, whereas candida and funguses like to grow in a very damp environment. Cinnamon is mildly drying which is good. It’s also warming, and also it helps balance
out blood sugar levels. Now, again here is one of the keys to getting
rid of mold, is doing a bone broth and herbal tea cleanse. I would drink three things. I would do this for a week. I would only consume bone broth, herbal tea,
and green juices during the day, and then at night you could do a piece of organic meat
and vegetables, sautéed in coconut oil. Just for all day drink bone broth, herbal
tea, green juice, and then at night do a meal. If you do that cleanse, I’m telling you,
you will kill off mold very fast, you’ll see radical changes in your health. And this is good as well for getting rid of
candida very, very quickly, not just mold and fungal issues. Now fix a moisture source. So again, if you know that you have a . . . I
would have somebody check your HVAC system, or your house. If you believe that you might have mold toxicity,
you can actually have mold inspectors come and test your entire home, I would do that. Also throw or get rid of any moldy items. In fact, in the Bible it talks about, if you
have mold in your home and you can’t get rid of it, burn it down or specifically in your
tent burn it down because they knew in the Bible and historically that mold was so damaging
to your health and body. Tea tree oil is a great essential oil that
has antifungal properties. Rubbing tea tree oils on different areas of
body can be beneficial. In fact, my mom who had a toenail fungus for
years, she loves when I talk about that, but she did a mixture of oregano oil and tea tree
oil on her toe which killed off a fungus, which again is in that family of mold. Baking soda being very, very alkaline, and
that is acidic, getting in more of that alkaline environment with baking soda and green juices
can help get rid of mold out of your system. Vinegar, cleaning your home with vinegar and
tea tree oil together, your showers or shower curtains, or different things that may have
mold build up is a good blend to do. Grapefruit seed extract is a good supplement
to take. Hydrogen peroxide is beneficial because mold
cannot live in this oxygenated environment, so hydrogen peroxide, another thing you can
do are hydrogen peroxide, vinegar, tea tree oil, clean different areas of your home with
that. Really another tip here and getting rid of
mold from your home is keeping humidity levels low, having drier air in your home is also
beneficial there as well. So here’s some tips that you can follow. Number one, cleansing your body. Bentonite clay is fantastic, raw garlic, activated
charcoal, oregano, green juices, sugar, cinnamon, doing a bone broth, herbal tea cleanse. And by the way, if you’ve ever used any
of these and saw results with getting rid of mold in your body, maybe some of the symptoms
like brain fog, any issues of candida, let me know that right now on Facebook Live and
YouTube Live. I’d love to hear the results you’ve seen with
doing any of these different remedies here as well. Remember, cleanse your home with some of these
natural remedies such as vinegar, tea tree oil, or hydrogen peroxide. If you do this, you can get rid of mold for
good. Well, guys I hope you’ve enjoyed this live
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to get rid of black mold and the remedies to help you do that.

Andrea and Chris Fabry used to live in
this beautiful 5,500 square foot home with their nine kids and two dogs they
had it all Chris a successful Christian radio host and author and the kids
thriving at school home in church but in 2007 they discovered mold in this
bathroom the Fabry’s cut into the wall
accidentally releasing spores and setting off a series of health problems
they ranged from rashes to diabetes and then worse Chris Fabry remembers 11 year
old Reagan’s constant vertigo this was a child I had to literally carry to the
bathroom so he could throw up the fur and no doctor would say they would say
you can’t have vertigo all the time that’s that’s not possible ten year old
Kaitlyn had to give up reading after her vision blurred next seven year old Colin
became sick he would be doubled over with abdominal pain
sobbing and migraines where he would scream his headaches would be so severe
that he would just literally sit there and scream and then it was all for kids
then every night was like that at this point the Fabry’s had no idea that mold
was to blame part of the problem remediated used fans on the mold
spreading toxic spores throughout the home also 30 doctors questioned the
Fabry’s but not one asked about their environment I would have doctor after
doctor look at me and say have you thought of a psychologist for him or her
have you thought of just sending him back and giving them a little bit of
tough love I think that’s what they need finally a year later an indoor air test
confirmed Andrea’s deepening suspicions
dangerously high counts of mold spores in several rooms the toxicologist told
the family your house is killing you get out and so they left leaving behind
everything even putting down their two dogs to prevent future contamination it
turns out that there’s only a handful of doctors in the country who specialized
in treating mold and so the Fabry’s decided to move to air
zona to seek the help of dr. michael gray who specializes in treating mold
and practices in rural benson just south of Tucson the Fabry’s have had a pattern
of illness that reflects what we’ve been seeing with other patients grey says
urine tests confirmed high levels of toxins in all eleven family members but
he doesn’t blame their doctors he blames the medical system it is an area that is
not well taught and it is not well recognized dr. David Jacobs is a former
HUD director and now leads research for the National Center for healthy housing
we are still struggling to understand you know which species of mold produce
which specific health outcomes Jacobs estimates that up to 25 percent of US
homes have a mold problem it’s a recognized hazard going all the way back
to Bible times in Leviticus 14 the Lord commands Moses and Aaron to follow up
unmould complaints the priest must go in and check it he must look carefully at
the mold that is on the walls today the World Health Organization says exposure
to toxic mold can hurt the cardiovascular and pulmonary systems and
even lead to death the Department of Defense calls one type of mold proven
lethal agents in warfare a lengthy report cites symptoms including vomiting
bleeding shock and rapid death these substances that we’re talking about
include amongst them the most toxic substances known to humankind that are
naturally occurring in the environment and because we use them for chemical
warfare we need to know how to protect our troops
but the EPA’s website has just one paragraph on how mold can cause health
problems it emphasizes allergies and concludes research is ongoing the
trouble says Jacobs is Congress has failed to make mold a priority there is
no uniform training curricula that’s out there that
all the states can use and adapt we do have that for lead and for radon we’re
breathing mold right now it’s not whether or not there’s mold in
your home it’s just whether or not there’s unsafe levels of mold in your
home David Colliers company cleans up mold
the key he says is keeping your home dry there’s a lot of opportunity for water
to drip inside here and you have it’s a dark area areas to watch for leaking
pipes under sinks water coming in around windows and unventilated bathrooms for
the Fabry’s it’s unknown if they’re Colorado home will ever be livable again
for now they are simply trying to recover the goal healthy eating and
avoiding public places which trigger newfound chemical sensitivities inspired
to share what they’ve learned andrea is chronicling their journey on
the web we as people living in our homes don’t know this and I think we’re gonna
wake up I think it’s coming just like lead poisoning tobacco I want to get to
the the redemption side of this but first tell me Chris Fabry is hosting his
radio show in a makeshift studio in their rental home off air he tackles
mounting medical bills that insurance won’t cover and is getting Reagan back
on track with his new baseball team we’re together my wife and I are closer
than we’ve ever been we have been able to go through this kind of tornado of
the emotion the rollercoaster of the emotions and the loss you know all of
our stuff and the dogs and then and the illnesses of the kids and we’ve really
seen God work in all of that it’s a long road to full recovery for the Fabry’s
but they’re armed with the grace of God and now a better knowledge of what
they’re dealing with that will help them recover and possibly wake more people up
to the dangers of mold reporting in Arizona Heather sells CBN News

Where does bread get its fluffiness? Swiss cheese its holes? And what makes vinegar so sour? These foods may taste
completely different, but all of these phenomena come from
tiny organisms chowing down on sugar and belching up some culinary byproducts. Let’s start with yeast. Yeast are single-celled fungi
used to make bread, beer, and wine, among other products. Yeast break down carbohydrates,
like sugar, to get energy
and the molecules they need to function. They have two different ways to do this: the oxygen-dependent, or aerobic, pathway, and the oxygen-independent,
anaerobic pathway, which is also called fermentation. When you bake bread,
yeast can use both pathways, but they normally prefer to start with
the anaerobic process of fermentation. In this process, ethanol is produced
in addition to CO2. No, bread isn’t alcoholic. Small amounts of alcohol that are secreted
evaporate during baking. In the aerobic,
or oxygen-dependent pathway, the yeast consume some of the sugar and produce carbon dioxide gas,
or CO2, and water. In both processes, the CO2 accumulates
and creates tiny bubbles. These bubbles get trapped by gluten
and create a sponge-like structure that gives the bread its soft texture. Wine also relies on yeast. But a wine-making set-up
keeps the oxygen levels low so that yeast consume sugar
using fermentation, the anaerobic pathway. The process often starts with wild yeasts
already hanging out on the grapes. But to get consistent results, most winemakers also add
carefully selected strains of yeast that can tolerate high levels of alcohol. The yeast consume the sugar
in the grape juice, and as the sugar level drops, the alcohol level rises. This doesn’t necessarily mean
that sweeter wines have less alcohol. Different types of grapes start with
different amounts of sugar, and sugar can also be added. What happens to the carbon dioxide? It just bubbles away through a vent. In carbonated alcoholic beverages,
like champagne and beer, sealed containers are used in primary
or secondary fermentation to keep the carbon dioxide in the bottle. Wine also introduces us to our second
type of food-producing microorganism: bacteria. A special strain of bacteria turns a tart compound in grape juice
into softer tasting ones that are responsible for some of
the flavors in red wines and chardonnays. Another type of bacteria,
called acetic acid bacteria, isn’t so desirable in wine, but they have their function, too. If there’s oxygen around, these bacteria convert the ethanol in wine
into, well, acetic acid. Let this process continue
and you’ll eventually get vinegar. Bacteria are the key for cheese, too. To make cheese,
milk is inoculated with bacteria. The bacteria gobble up the lactose,
a kind of sugar, and produce lactic acid,
along with many other chemicals. As the milk gets more and more acidic, its proteins start to aggregate
and curdle. That’s why spoiled milk is clumpy. Cheesemakers usually add an enzyme
called rennet, naturally found inside of cows, goats,
and some other mammals to help this process along. Eventually, those little curdles turn into
bigger curds, which are pressed
to squeeze out the water, and create a firm cheese. Different strains of bacteria
make different kinds of cheese. For example, a species of bacteria
that emits carbon dioxide is what gives swiss cheese
its characteristic holes. Some cheeses, brie and camembert,
use another kind of microorganism, too: mold. So your kitchen functions as a sort of
biotechnology lab manned by microorganisms
that culture your cuisine. Yogurt, soy sauce, sour cream, sauerkraut, kefir, kimchi, kombucha,
cheddar, challah, pita, and naan. But maybe not all at the same dinner.